Modi@4: Our Buri Ladki Has Your Report Card for Women

“BSF’s women bikers make India proud” read the headlines on India’s 69th Republic Day. It was indeed a bright start to yet another year of highs and lows for the women in the country.

With PM Modi’s government completing four years in power, allow The Quint’s Buri Ladki to walk you through the rise and fall of the Indian woman through her eyes.

Who is this Buri Ladki you ask? Well, the not-so-sankari, meant to stand-out, woman with a mind of her own and a voice that can’t be tamed – ‘naam toh suna hoga’. Now that you know her, let’s rewind the last four years.

We raged and ranted in the middle when a JNU student, Sheena Thakur, was actually manhandled for protesting sexual violence! And then the very worst happened – Kathua, Unnao and many more rape cases came to light.

2017

2017 reminds me of when our very own PeeCee got trolled for baring her knees to the PM.

But she took them down by showing more legs in a picture posted on her Instagram page. What a badass!

Also, there was a survey conducted by Accenture doing the rounds that shows that men earn 67% more than women in India. Wake up bharatiya naari, it’s time to earn our money back.

And then we rewound and our hearts skipped a beat as a brave woman journalist lay gunned down at the nation’s feet. Veteran Journalist Gauri Lankesh had been killed on 5 September 2017. And we wondered, did they kill a journalist? Or our freedom of speech?

What came next was the ‘Happy to Bleed’ social media campaign that rolled into motion after Sabarimala Temple Board’s scandalous suggestion to install machines to test whether a woman is menstruating before being allowed to enter the temple.